I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
~By Bobby Darin ~
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
~By John McCrae ~
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
~By Casey Abrams ~
They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.
~By Craig Ferguson ~
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
~By Gerard Butler ~
If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.
~By Holly Near ~
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
~By Placido Domingo ~
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
~By Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz ~
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
~By Alan Jackson ~
I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny.
~By Amy Jo Johnson ~
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!
~By Glenn Hughes ~
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
~By Janine Turner ~
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.
~By Alison Moyet ~
Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
~By Buddy Guy ~
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
~By Colin Firth ~
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
~By Vince Gill ~
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
~By James W. Black ~
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
~By Shania Twain ~
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
~By Martin Gore ~
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
~By Charles King ~
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
~By Bobby Darin ~
I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.
~By Elaine Paige ~
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
~By Bobby Womack ~
I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.
~By William Hung ~
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
~By Patsy Cline ~
The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.
~By Thia Megia ~
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.
~By Graham Norton ~
Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
~By John Fogerty ~
To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
~By Emmylou Harris ~
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
~By Jon Crosby ~
I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
~By Jimmy Rushing ~
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
~By James Darren ~
Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.
~By Graham Coxon ~
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.
~By Roy Haynes ~
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
~By Charlie Hunter ~
Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
~By Little Richard ~
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
~By Avril Lavigne ~
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
~By Minnie Driver ~
I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
~By Patti Page ~
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
~By Walter Legge ~
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
~By Venerable Bede ~
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
~By Kim Gordon ~
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
~By Mariah Carey ~
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
~By Mick Jagger ~
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
~By Elvis Presley ~
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
~By Ella Fitzgerald ~
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
~By Taryn Manning ~
This nation loves singing and loves acting.
~By Kate Smith ~
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
~By LaToya London ~
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
~By Lou Gramm ~
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
~By Pete Seeger ~
Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
~By Ruth Brown ~
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
~By Anton Seidl ~
58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
~By Spike Milligan ~
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
~By Christina Milian ~
Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
~By Susan Boyle ~
Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
~By Taylor Dane ~
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
~By Henry Miller ~
I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
~By Jill Scott ~
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
~By P. J. Harvey ~
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
~By Joan Sutherland ~
I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
~By Reba McEntire ~
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
~By Fantasia Barrino ~
I miss my singing career very much.
~By Elvis Presley ~
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.
~By Keith David ~
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
~By Joe Cocker ~
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